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Members of the 1st Field Ambulance receiving mail, Chailak Dere, Gallipoli Peninsula, 1915. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.

Members of the 1st Field Ambulance receiving mail, Chailak Dere, Gallipoli Peninsula, 1915. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.

  • James Hamilton enlists. James is commemorated on the Centenary of WWI in Orange Honour Roll; he would be killed in action in Belgium on 29 October 1917.
  • Between 29 August and 14 September, two stretcher-bearers at the 1st Field Ambulance treated 199 dental cases. They performed 122 extractions, 29 amalgam fillings, six dressings, 30 minor operations, two partial upper dentures, two partial lower dentures and 19 repairs.